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When did / What made you realise?

AutisticBeaut2025

Firstly, I would like to thank you all for your help with my autism research as you have been a big part of my autism journey that I’ve been on since I’ve fallen out with my best friend and you have also made me see realise that the NeuroDiversity World is beautiful as well as complicated but I have loved every second of it.

In the meantime, I have one last challenging question for you, which is when did you realise that you were autistic and what made you go for an assessment?  If you can’t remember exactly then that’s fine but if you know roughly then that would be great.

Im just curious and intrigued

Time to get your thinking caps on!!xx

  • It was after my last year at uni, trying to find answers to what was wrong with me, why I had so many different illnesses, symptoms, allergies etc that no one could explain. THen I found out about autism in women and suddenly everything started to make sense. About 2 years later I sought diagnosis, autism in women was still "new" then, (14 years ago), but I did see a psychologist and was diagnosed, I felt such relief, I could start working with it rather than against it. It also gave me an excuse to blow a big raspberry at my ex who was always going on about how weird I am and tell him I really couldn't help it, it was something right with me not wrong with me.